MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS June 20, 1986 Page 5 - Tape 1
the building? Why do we need a 13-story building?" So I began to enumerate how the rooms might well be used: (1) We would need a dining room for the public, (2) We needed a whole floor for library space, (3) We needed four floors (two floors for a Biola gymnasium and two floors for a Church of the Open Door gymnasium) because various organizations had active recreational programs, and the space could well be utilized for those purposes, (4) We needed additional space for classrooms, (5) On the upper floors we needed space for guest rooms for parents and friends of the school who were visiting. At any rate, I hastily informed them as to how we could well utilize the 12 or 13 floors in the new building. Then Ray put a question to me: "Sam," he said, "do you know how much you're talking about by way of cost?" Well, being a preacher I didn't have the remotest idea of how much we were talking about, but out of the blue I said, "Yes, we're talking about a building that will cost around one-
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